Black History Month and HOPE as an Anti-Racist Framework [positiveexperience.org/blog]

Fortunately, at a very young age I was emphatically told by my mother about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our black family doctor.

She never had anything disdainful to say about people of color; in fact she loves to watch/listen to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channels.

Conversely, if she’d told me the opposite about the doctor, I could’ve aged while blindly linking his color with an unjustly cynical view of him and all black people. ...

Remove the greatest difference among humans—race/color—and left are less obvious differences over which to clash, such as sub-racial identity (i.e. ethnicity), nationality, religion and so forth down that scale we tumble.     

(Add a, say, contemporary deadly disease to the ugly equation and there’s a real potent fuel for the hateful fire.)     

Therefore, what humankind may need to suffer in order to survive the long term—indeed, from ourselves!—is an even greater nemesis (perhaps a multi-tentacled ET?) than our own politics of difference, against which we could all unite, attack and defeat—all during which we’d be forced to work closely side-by-side together and witness just how humanly similar we are to each other.     

Before non-white people became the primary source of newcomers to North America, thick-accented Eastern Europeans were the main targets of mean-spirited Anglo bigotry.     

I’m no Stanley Milgram, but I hypothesize that if the U.S. and Canada were to (God forbid) revert back to a primarily-white populace, if not some VDARE whites-only utopia, the stereotypically thick Slavic accented Eastern Europeans would eventually again become the main target of the dominant Euro-Canadian ethnicity.